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week's edition include:
** China opens first vegetable museum
China Shouguang Vegetable Museum shows the relationship between the
development of China's vegetable farming and society, exhibiting items such
as farming tools, specimens and drawings from the Longshan civilization
period (2340 B.C. - 1940 B.C.) to modern period
** Polaroid row hots up
Chuck Close is lending his "absolute" support to a last-gasp campaign to
stop the sale of works from the Polaroid Collection, which numbers around
16,000 works according to court papers filed in Minnesota in 2009
** The iPhone of the Renaissance
The offer of a sketch might seem a natural one for an artist to make, but it
depended on new technology - just as you would today if you sent a photo
from an iPhone
** Apollo 13 astronauts gather at Kansas space museum
Two Apollo 13 astronauts travelled to a Kansas space museum over the weekend
to visit the space capsule that brought them home after a harrowing mission
** Lover's letter reveals George Orwell's heartache
The secret that prevented British author George Orwell from marrying his
childhood sweetheart has been revealed in an emotionally charged letter that
shows how their budding romance ended in embarrassment and regret
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** Iran wants $300,000 in British Museum antiquity row
The dispute over the so-called Cyrus Cylinder, named after the Persian
ruler's 6th century BC conquest of Babylon, is a further sign of
deteriorating relations between Tehran and London
** Museum to collect gay and lesbian artefacts
The Kansas City Museum has joined forces with the UMKC Library and the
Jackson County Historical Society in collecting artefacts from Kansas City's
gay and lesbian communities
** 'Sorceror' Hew Draper's Tower of London graffiti: a black art indeed
The spectacular astrological engravings carved by Hew Draper into his Tower
of London cell offer a glimpse into Britain's magical past
** Secret Jackie Kennedy interviews revealed
Half a century on, new light will be shed on John F. Kennedy's tragically
curtailed presidency by his widow Jackie Kennedy, the person arguably
closest to him, who during her later life virtually never spoke publicly on
that subject or any other
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** Britain's National Gallery to show its forgeries
A collection of paintings that have caused art aficionados to turn a deep
shade of purple and have provoked upset and anger throughout the art world
are to go on show
** Fossil 'gold mine' illuminates ancient Wyoming warming
About 55 million years ago, the world went through a hot spell to kick off
the Eocene epoch, an estimated 11-degree Fahrenheit increase in average
temperatures over 20,000 years in the midst of a warm phase that lasted
about 6 million years
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries: Mar 21 to April 19. Clear and direct communication is key to a
successful marriage. Try ending all of your domestic exchanges with "Roger
that, good buddy."
** The discovery of Lady Jane - rolled up under the table
With flood water pouring into the Tate's basement, reaching a height of
nearly 3m, many works had been lost or damaged, including some by Martin's
contemporary, the great artist J.M.W. Turner
** Christie's sells 'fake' vintage wine, claims billionaire
Mr Koch's complaint says that he didn't discover his wine may be counterfeit
until 2005 when he was asked for a photograph of his bottles for a catalogue
for a Boston museum
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** Big dig at navy museum site uncovers moa bones
The Austrian-born geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter recorded references
made by local Maori in the late 19th century to a large pa and settlement
that had been established in the area centuries before
** Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans
A new study led by Ohio University scientists suggests that early Native
Americans left a bigger carbon footprint than previously thought, providing
more evidence that humans impacted global climate long before the modern
industrial era
** Aleutian war exhibit opens
"Kiska and Adak: War in the Aleutians" includes wartime artefacts from the
museum's collection, photographs taken by American and Japanese soldiers on
the islands and evocative contemporary photos of the battlefields
** Grace Kelly's Life Featured
One of the most iconic Hollywood figures of all time, Kelly's simple but
elegant fashion sense is chronicled in "Grace Kelly: Style Icon"
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** Visitors groping live nude artists in New York Museum of Modern Art
Visitors to the eyebrow-raising new exhibit at MoMA got a little too grabby
with the show's naked performers; an unspecified number of patrons were
ejected for groping performers but none were arrested, and there were no
calls made to police
** Archaeology on the front line
In the months preceding the war, antiquities experts asked the Pentagon and
the British government to ensure the safety of Iraqi museums, monuments and
historical sites from combat and plunder, but they didn't
** New Monuments in the Middelheim Museum
Thirteen Belgian artists focus on the future of the monument
** MESDA Conference on American Material Culture
October 28-30, 2010
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